Well, this isn't really what the hosts file was intended to do, so it's kind
of a workaround. Obviously if you control your own network edge you can block
entire domains on your DNS server, and of course the browser ad blockers *do*
have regular expressions.

Mechanics aside, the key takeaway here is that I've found that the most obnoxious
ads, at least on the sites I've been on over the last week or so, have come
from Fecesbook. Blocking Fecesbook at the network level while turning off
ad blocker on sites which insist on it, seems to allow those sites to load
while still blocking the ads that rape your eyes and your computer's CPU.

Here's a good analogy, and I think it's one that I'm going to stick with
for a while.

QQuitting Facebook is like quitting smoking.

Everyone knows it's toxic, everyone knows it's bad for you, and everyone
knows it's addicting and hard to quit. (It took me three or four tries to
quit, but I managed to pull it off eventually.) But if you're committed,
your true friends will help you beat the addiction.

People who have successfully quit Facebook all seem to feel this way. And
they all agree that they're much better without it.

(Discussion is welcome, but if anyone suggests that Facebook is *not* toxic,
you're automatically advertising denial of your problem.)

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And if they are using Bills (sic) Gates, Thomas Edison, Stephen King, and
JK Rowling as good examples, that further destroys their credibility in my
eyes. All four of them are absolutely horrible people. Mark Twain was pretty
cool though.

I can't decide whether the author of that message is a native English speaker.
There are some pretty egregious errors in it.

At this point, I think it's LinkedIn that has been selling my info to anyone
who wants it. I'm getting lots of unsolicited solicitations on my work email
these days, and they all seem to have my first and last name, email address,
and the job title I have posted on LinkedIn.

"Our privacy policy: we will not disclose your information to anyone, unless
they are offering money"

What the hell is going on with Fecesbook right now? Suddenly everyone is
all upset because they were caught using everyone's private data for nefarious
purposes? Hasn't everyone always known that Facebook does that a thousand
times a day?

Why would Zuckerberg comply with anything other than armed officers escorting him out of the building? The entire service was built on dishonesty. Stolen from another student, built to keep tabs on coeds they wanted to bang, and slurping and exploiting data on the other two billion people who have signed up since then. Facebook is toxic. Facebook is a cancer on the Internet. Facebook brings out the worst in people. Facebook breaks every privacy law a million times every day. The Internet needs to rid itself of Facebook.